Combined harrow and sulky.



No. 794,339- I PATENTED JULY 11, 1905.

' D. H. BROWN.

COMBINED HARROW AND SULKY.- APPLICATION 'IILED gEPT. e. 1904.

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PATENT GEEIC DANIEL n. BROWN, ()F FORT DODGE, IOWA.

I COMBINED HARROW AND SULKY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 794,339, dated July 11, 1905.

I I Application filed September 6, 1904. Serial No. 223,547.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, DANIEL H. BROWN, acitizen of the United States, residing at Fort Dodge, in the county of Webster and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Foldable Harrow and Sulky Combined, of which the following is a specification.

My object is to provide means for adjustably and detachably connecting a foldable harrow with a sled-runner and a sulky as required to facilitate the operation of the harrow or to carry it in an inoperative position, as shown and described in my application, Serial NO. 209,989, liled May 26, 1904:.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, as hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a top view that shows the rela tive positions ofall the parts. Fig. 2 is a side view that shows barrow-bars connected with the draft-bar and runner and in a vertical and inoperative position.

The numeral 10 designates a draftbar formed with a gooseneck 11 at its rear end portion and provided with means, such as a coupling 12, for attaching a doubletree 13 to its forward end. A shoe or sled-runner 14 is fixed to and beneath the draft-bar 10 and serves to support said draft-bar slidingly on the surface of the ground. Socket members 15 16 are provided on opposite sides of and hinged to the draft-bar 10. Harrow-bars 17, 18, and 19'are pivoted or otherwise connected at their forward ends to the sockets in the socket member 15 and harrow-bars 20, 2'1, and 22 to the sockets in the socket member 16, said harrow-bars occupying oblique planes and. diverging from opposite sides of the d raftbar 10 rearwardly, as shown in Fig. 1.

A sulky consisting of an axle 70, carried by supporting-wheels 71, 72, and having a tongue 73, carrying a seat 74:, said tongue further connected to the axle by braces 75, 76. The tongue 7 3 alines with the rear end portion of the draft-bar 10 or gooseneck 11, and is connected thereto flexibly by interengaging eyes 77, 78. In the normal use of the 5 barrow the sulky trails behind the draft-bar 10 and is flexibly connected thereto; but at times it is desirable to connect the sulky and draft-bar rigidly, and to this end a sleeve 79 is provided on the tongue 73 and arranged to be moved longitudinally into engagement with the gooseneck 11 and bridging the space occupied by the eyes 77 78 as required to rigidly connect the tongue 73 with the draft-bar 10. There is a bayonet-joint connection between the tongue 73 and the sleeve 79, which serves to hold the sleeve normally on the tongue and not in engagement with the gooseneek 11. Standards 80 81 are fixed to and rise from the axle adjacent to the supporting-wheels.

It is obvious the several parts of the complete device may be adjusted as shown in the drawings.

In the practical operation of my invention the sled-runner 14 on the front end of the draft-bar 1O slides on the ground and the draft-bar serves as a pole for advancing and directing the sulky. The hinged socket mem bers l5 and 16 serve for connecting harrowbars and fololableharrows therewith, so the bars and sections can be adjusted and detached, and also in such a manner that harrows connected with the hinged socket-bars will be selfadjusting when dragged over uneven ground.

Having thus set forth the purpose of my invention and the manner of its construction and operation, the practical utility thereof will be readily understood by farmers and others familiar with the art to which it pertains.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a device fordetachably and ad j ustably connecting harrows with a sled-runner and a sulky, a sled-runner and a draft-bar fixed to the runner and-provided with a gooseneck at its rear end that projects upward and rearward and a sulky connected with the end of the gooseneck for the purposes stated.

2. In adevice for detachably and adj ustably connecting harrows with a sled-runner and a sulky, a sled-runner and a draft-bar fixed to the runner and provided with a gooseneck at its rear end a sulky and means for connecting the rear end of the gooseneck with the front end of the tongue of a sulky, for the purposes stated.

3. In a device for connecting barrows with a sulky, a sled-runner, adraft-bar fixed to the runner and a gooseneck at the rear end of the runner, a sulky-tongue flexibly connected with the rear end of the goo'seneck and means for making the connection between the gooseneck and the sulky-tongue rigid, for the purposes stated.

4. In a device for connecting harrows with a sulky, a sled-runner, a draft-bar fixed to the runner and a gooseneck at the rear end of the runner,a sulky-tongue flexibly connected with the rear end of the gooseneck and a sleeve and bayonet-joint, connected with the sulkytongue for the purposes stated.

5. In a sulky-ha'rrow, a sled-runner, a draftbar, socket members hinged to the draft-bar, a sulky connected with and trailing behind said draft-bar and barrow-bars pivoted in said socket members, arranged and combined to operate in the manner set forth, for the purposes stated.

6. In asulky-harrow, a sled-runner, a draftbar mounted on said sled-runner, socket-sections hinged to said draft-bar, barrow-bars pivoted to and diverging from said socket members, a sulky connected with and trailing from said draft-bar, means for rigidly connecting the sulky and draft-bar, arranged and combined to operate in the manner set forth for the purposes stated.

7. A device for detachably and adjustably connecting harrows with a sulky, comprising a sled-runner, a draft-bar havinga gooseneck at its rear end, the tongue of a sulky connected with the rear end of the gooseneck, socket-irons hinged to the front end of the draft-bar, means for connecting harrows with the said hinged irons and a doubletree connected with the sled-runner and draft-bar, arranged and combined to operate in the manner set forth for the purposes stated.

DANIEL H. BROWN.

Witnesses:

D. J. CoUoHLAN, S. J. BROWN. 

